Working and Serving
For the past two weeks I've been working for a pipe drilling company called Old Dominion Underground. When I didn't get picked up, I needed to get a job pretty quick. A good friend of mine named Tony Talbert, his dad made a call for me, and I was working the next day.
My day starts around 5 a.m. I have to be at work a half hour away at 7. I get up so early because I eat seven times a day, and five of those are on the job, so I have to pack five lunches. I usually get home about 7 p.m., which makes training a little difficult. This past semester I would get up at 9, and training was the center of my day. Recovery is also different because I'm getting about three hours less sleep a night.
We've been working in downtown Richmond. There are lot of needy and broken that walk by and ask for money and cigarettes. After giving away part of my lunch along with a co-worker's cigarette yesterday, I'm going prepared today. Hopefully just as grace is freely and constantly extended to me, at our routine Citgo stop this morning, I bought some things to hand out -- a 24-pack of Aquafina, a box of oatmeal cream pies and a pack of Marlboros.
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Jon Copper
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May 28, 2009; 12:49 PM ET
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